![]() ![]() ![]() The elevator pitch might well have been "'Ocean's 11' on the moon."Īndy Weir joins us for the podcast, and talks about how he got from Mars to the moon, why other first-city-in-space stories generally don't make any sense and just how you follow up one of the biggest publishing-industry success stories of the last decade. And instead of using an encyclopedic knowledge of space travel to survive the elements, she rounds up an eclectic team of slightly damaged moon citizens to pull off a daring (but well-intentioned) criminal caper. Protagonist Jazz Bashara is a far cry from the earnest botanist of "The Martian," Mark Watney. Part vacation hotspot, part mining town, the city of Artemis has a healthy underground economy in smuggling and vice, all following the tourism dollars flowing in from Earth. " Artemis," his new novel, is set on the first city on the moon. Subscribe: CNET RSS | iTunes | FeedBurner | Google Play | TuneIn | StitcherĪ more pressing question may be: How do you follow up a massive blockbuster like " The Martian?" That book started out as a self-published serialized online novel in 2011, became a viral hit, was picked up by a mainstream publisher, and ended up as a hit Ridley Scott movie.įor Weir, the answer was to move the action a few decades further out into the future, but closer to home. Your browser does not support the audio element. CNET Book Club, Episode 3: "Artemis" by Andy Weir ![]()
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